Manteo High School: English Department: Common Goals
B. Vogt
Unit Name:
Origins and Traditions Ancient World (3000 B.C.-A.D.1400)
Grade Level:
English II
Texts Used:
The Epic of Gigamesh; Genesis 1-3 and Genesis 6-9; The Book of Ruth; Psalms 8,19,23,137; The King James Version of the Bible; from the Qur’an; The Exordium; Night; Daylight; Comfort; from The Thousand and One Nights; The Fisherman and The Jinnee; from the Rubaiyat; from the Gulistan; from The Manner of Kings; The Elephant in the Dark; Two Kinds of Intelligence; The Guest House; Which is Worth; African Proverbs and Sundiata; an Epic of Old Mali. Reading Information Material: Brochures: The Quest for Immortality.
Skills:
Level 2
Vocabulary/literary elements (define, identify)
The epic; archetype: The hero’s quest; archetypal setting; parallelism; imagery; analogy; proverbs; folk tales; didactic literature; * Resource Help-
*
Content (characters, basic plot, author)
§ What is an archetype and an archetypal setting? In The Epic of Gilgamesh, how does the hero’s quest represent the archetypal setting ? Archetypes in Literature § Describe three examples of antithesis that help make the ideas of imagery in the selections from the Quar’ an clearer. § In what ways is The Rubaiyat an example of didactic literature? § Explain two proverbs that appear in Sundiata. § What is the importance of didactic literature, proverbs, folk tales, and archetypes within a particular culture?
Level 3
Themes/Big Ideas
§ How will the epic hero, the epic quest, and the epic conflict effect the emerging civilizations that forge an identity?
Level 4
Connections (to world, other texts, self, inference)
§ Select a text we covered and identity the theme and show how the epic hero, the epic quest and the epic conflict effected the emergence of a particular identity with a particular culture.
Writing/Project
§ Analyze a Literary Period § Narration: Autobiographical Narration § Deliver a speech
NCSCS:
WL. 1.02.3 Exhibit an aware of cultural contest of text in a personal reflection WL.1.03.1 Select, monitor, and modify reading strategies appropriate to personal reflection IR.2.01.4 Demonstrate comprehension of main idea and supporting details in answering research questions FA.3.01.2 Research and summarize printed data about a controversial issue CT.4.01.1 Interpret and make generalizations about events supported by specific references CT.4.02.3 Examine how elements such as irony and symbolism impact theme LT.5.01.3 Analyze literary devices and explain their effect on the work of world literature GU.6.01.1 Employ varying sentence structures and sentence types
B. Vogt
Ancient World (3000 B.C.-A.D.1400)
*
Archetypes in Literature
§ Describe three examples of antithesis that help make the ideas of imagery in the selections from the Quar’ an clearer.
§ In what ways is The Rubaiyat an example of didactic literature?
§ Explain two proverbs that appear in Sundiata.
§ What is the importance of didactic literature, proverbs, folk tales, and archetypes within a particular culture?
§ Narration: Autobiographical Narration
§ Deliver a speech
WL.1.03.1 Select, monitor, and modify reading strategies appropriate to personal reflection
IR.2.01.4 Demonstrate comprehension of main idea and supporting details in answering research questions
FA.3.01.2 Research and summarize printed data about a controversial issue
CT.4.01.1 Interpret and make generalizations about events supported by specific references
CT.4.02.3 Examine how elements such as irony and symbolism impact theme
LT.5.01.3 Analyze literary devices and explain their effect on the work of world literature
GU.6.01.1 Employ varying sentence structures and sentence types